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PART C
Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文: Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland and the major city in commerce and industry. And it is one of the most important ship-building and repairing centers of 'the United Kingdom, and has long been known for its linen textiles. Its manufactures include aircraft, guided weapons, and tobacco and food products. A large petroleum refinery here is supplied by imported petroleum, which is received fit the city's deep-water port. Other imports include grain, coal, chemicals, and iron and steel. Among the chief exports are petroleum products, soap, food stuffs and textiles.
In Belfast, there are the notable Ulster Museum and the Protestant Cathedral of St. Anne. As an educational center, the city is home to Queen's University of Belfast and Belfast College of Technology.
Although there's evidence that people once settled in this place during the Stone and Bronze Age, the founding of Belfast dates from 1177 when a Norman castle was erected. Edward Bruce destroyed the settlement in 1315, the year he became the Irish King. The city was taken by the English in the 16th century. In the late 17th century, French refugees arrived here and developed the linen industry. The harbor was improved in the late 18th century. And ship-building was begun on a large scale. The city was made the capital of Northern Ireland in 1920. During World War Ⅱ , Belfast was heavily damaged by German bombing raids. Beginning in 1969, the city was the scene of religious disorder involving civil rights agitation and increased violence.
Belfast has long been famous for its ______.

A. oil refinery
B. linen textiles
C. food products
D. deep-water port

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A. indifferent
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C. straightforward
D. optimistic

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A. They have lost their privacy.
B. They are harassed by letters and phone calls from strangers asking for money.
C. Many of them experience long periods of depression.
D. Many members of their family have been kidnapped.

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A. has never tasted the bitterness of failure.
B. has reached most of them
C. has only achieved some of them.
D. has tried to reach them once and for all.

Professor Lancashire holds that email is important because ______.

A. it is the purest form. of writing
B. rules of formal writing can be ignored
C. it makes more people take up writing.
D. it enables people to get together

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